Best digital camera?

davidl_2

I've been comparing the Canon Digital IXUS 60 to Canon PowerShot A620 Digital Camera, and the A620 looks better in every spec - apart from ISO is only up to 400, whereas IXUS 60 can go up to 800. Do you think that ISO 400 is enough for non-professional every-day shots?

tewboss wrote:

Canon are very good at digital cameras. PC Pro are recommending the Canon Digital IXUS 60 at the moment - its list price is £213. Is this overkill for your requirements? I bought a Fuji a while back and their cameras are good value.

krishna

We have a Canon A95, which is one of the predecessors to the A620. My sister has an A620 (or v. similar). I think they are excellent cameras. Very flexible. Can use as point and shoot or muck about with exposure settings etc. Gives good quality images and I find the swivelable TFT very useful. Highly recommend them. Actually the A620 is much better than our A95 in that it is lighter. However these are not tiny cameras, but then I didn't want a tiny camera as find them too difficult to hold.

The software that comes with the Canons for uploading photos onto your PC, etc is the best I have seen.

krishna

I dont think you will notice much of a problem with the apparent ISO400 rating limit.

We have a Canon A95, which is one of the predecessors to the A620. My sister has an A620 (or v. similar). I think they are excellent cameras. Very flexible. Can use as point and shoot or muck about with exposure settings etc. Gives good quality images and I find the swivelable TFT very useful. Highly recommend them. Actually the A620 is much better than our A95 in that it is lighter. However these are not tiny cameras, but then I didn't want a tiny camera as find them too difficult to hold.

The software that comes with the Canons for uploading photos onto your PC, etc is the best I have seen.

niceguyrichy

I use a Minolta Dimage Z2 atm, and I gotta say it's a great camera for the money

10X optical zoom , and enough toys to keep even me happy

had a couple pics on the desktop, thought you might want to see what it could do.
from a trip to the coast a couple weeks back(don't forget to click to get the size to max):

ManAtHome

High ISO tends to be useful in unusual circumstances - for outdoor shots and indoors with flash ISO 100-200 is adequate. In Ye Oldene Dayes, the vast majority of film sold in the UK was ISO 400 or less - tended to be 200 or 400 for compacts, 100 for SLRs (big bulky things with big bulky 'loadsa-light' lenses).

speedyjoe

We are in the market for a new camera and are looking at the Canon A series range. The A620 looks nice but our current front runner is the A540.

The 620 has a bigger zoom, a multi angle screen and is 7 mega pixel compared to the 540's 6. But the 540 is a bit cheaper, has a newer 800 iso sensor, newer processor - I think, and with only 2 AAs is quite a bit smaller and lighter than the 620.

Cheapest we have seen is £157 delivered on Amazon.

Just my tuppence worth.

davidl_2

:T

Think I may go for the Canon A620 then... just trying to find a good price. Currys has a good discount, but out of stock (surprise surprise), so cheapest looks like Purely Gadgets which is £176 + shipping, and includes 18 months warranty. Can't find any discount codes so assume they don't have any.

Anyone else bought from them before?

CAT-THE-FIFTH

ISO800 and ISO1600 means that you can take pictures even in a dimly lit restaurant wthout using the flash

These samples show the low light capabilities of the F10 which are unmatched by any other camera in it's class

http://www.dpreview.com/gallery/fujifilmf10_samples/

However if you don't use the camera in poor light then an A620 would be great!

Astaroth

ISO can be a bit of a conn.... as the ISO goes up the sensitivity to light also goes up... the "problem" is that your camera will also create more digital noise in the shot (hence why you use the lowest ISO you can at any time) but how much noise is dependant on the quality of the camera.

I had a basically unbranded camera which went up to ISO 800 where as my sony camera only goes to 400 but with both cameras at 400 the sony produced 1/2 the amount of noise as the unbranded did... now mainly use by dSLR which does up to 1600 and has less noise at this sensitivity than the sony or unbranded did at 400

CAT-THE-FIFTH

A lot of reviews have said that the F10 ISO ratings are very accurate. Some cameras tend to be optimistic or even pessimistic in this respect!

Many consider Fuji a tier one manufacturer as they do design their own sensors